The Acts of the Apostles In the fall of the year 50, the Apostle Paul arrived in Athens, the great capital of classical culture. The apostle came alone; at the end of a challenging year where he had traveled hundreds, thousands of miles; had left Antioch in Syria the previous autumn, and had traveled […]
Acts of the Apostles After the Council of Jerusalem, Paul and Barnabas prepare for a new mission. In Jerusalem, the apostles and priests met to discuss a critical issue raised by Paul and Barnabas. Having announced the Gospel of Christ to many non-Jews, the question arose whether, before being a Christian, one should be a […]
Acts of the Apostles In Antioch of Syria, a beautiful, large, vibrant, active Christian community was born. Barnabas and Saul were the animators, and they also had other prophets and doctors in that Church in Antioch. In Antioch, the idea of starting the mission to the world matured, and they sent Barnabas and Saul to […]
Acts of the Apostles “Now there were in the church at Antioch prophets and teachers.” Chapter 13 of the Acts of the Apostles focuses on the Christian community of Antioch, that great city where a Church was created composed of non-Jews. In the community of Antioch was also the physician Luke, who is recognized as […]
Acts of the Apostles In Antioch, a Christian community was born of Greeks, that is, not Jewish people. This is an extraordinary fact. The Church of Jerusalem sent Barnabas to verify this strangeness, and Barnabas, as a virtuous man, recognized God’s grace; he went to seek Paul and took him to Antioch. The two […]
Acts of the Apostles “Now the apostles and the brothers who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles too had accepted the word of God.” Peter went to Caesarea. In the house of the centurion Cornelius, he announced the Gospel to a group of foreigners and baptized them. The news reached Jerusalem, and instead […]
Acts of the Apostles Luke, the author of the Acts of the Apostles, narrated the conversion of Saul of Tarsus. Perhaps Luke did not consider it a conversion but rather a maturing; he has grown to fullness, but he has changed; he has changed his attitude. It is chapter 9 of Acts, which we read […]
Acts of the Apostles “Now Saul, still breathing murderous threats against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, that, if he should find any men or women who belonged to the Way, he might bring them back to Jerusalem in chains.” […]
Acts of the Apostles Saul was one of those who approved of Stephen’s murder. We saw in chapter 7 of Acts of the Apostles the dramatic story of the murder of Stephen, one of the 7; one of the leaders of the Hellenistic group, Jewish Christians Greek-speaking. Stephen was a man of authority in the […]
In the first part of the Acts of the Apostles, Luke, the narrator, presented an ideal situation of the early Christian community where all were of one heart and one soul. From chapter 6 begins a new part of the story with the broadening of horizons and the departure of the Christian community from […]